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The Life of Arseniev: Youth (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory (Paperback))
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
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Paperback. Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he emigrated after the Revolution and never returned to his homeland;"The Life of Arseniev"is the major work of his emigre period." Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he emigrated after the Revolution and never returned to his homeland; The Life of Arseniev is the major work of his émigré period.
In ways similar to Nabokov's Speak, Memory, Bunin's novel powerfully evokes the atmosphere of Russia in the decades before the Revolution and illuminates those Russian literary and cultural traditions eradicated in the Soviet era. This first full English-language edition updates earlier translations, taking as its source the version Bunin revised in 1952, ... Read more
Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he emigrated after the Revolution and never returned to his homeland; The Life of Arseniev is the major work of his émigré period.
In ways similar to Nabokov's Speak, Memory, Bunin's novel powerfully evokes the atmosphere of Russia in the decades before the Revolution and illuminates those Russian literary and cultural traditions eradicated in the Soviet era. This first full English-language edition updates earlier translations, taking as its source the version Bunin revised in 1952, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810111721
SKU
V9780810111721
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Reviews for The Life of Arseniev: Youth (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory (Paperback))
Bunin's late novel does indeed possess all the best characteristics of his earlier style and approach, developing a richness that is full and autumnal without being in the least decadent. Bunin's descriptive prose is alive in the same absolute sense as that of D. H. Lawrence." —New York Review of Books